My biggest challenge in photography is taking pictures of people in an everyday life setting but in India I willed myself to walk up to people to ask if I could take their pictures. But as I soon found out, if you have a camera walking about on the street, people sometimes ask you to take their pictures.
This first happened to me in Jaipur, at the milk market. I was walking off to take pictures of the people wheeling and dealing milk but as I passed this man and before I knew what was happening he was asking me to take his picture. I really like it, you can tell he just woke up but he was still cheerful enough to have his picture taken. I know some people who would die before they'd have their pictures taken unless they were totally composed, had perfect hair and were wearing the right clothes but that really kills it for me.
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Yeah, one of my biggest regrets in taking photos is not having the courage to ask permission to people. It's always better to see people smiling in photos...
Well, if you are in a place you might never ever visit again (not the case in India but maybe the case in Kyrgyzstan) then I just go for it. When am I ever going back to take the same picture. And in the end, the worst thing that can happen is they say no.
It's fun trying to ask people whether they mind when you don't speak a word of the same language - lots of gestures and waving the camera around! :)
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